The old John McCain would just admit he changed his position and move on. But the new John McCain campaign is incapable of that. Instead, they are reverting to an attack on the messenger. The question and answer I released yesterday was a full question and a full answer. Nothing is taken out of context. But in order to avoid further controversy and distraction, I have dug out what I believe to be all of the discussion on Hamas during our interview.
Whenever conservatives can't win an argument on the merits, they attack some real or perceived enemy as Hitler. And anyone who tries to resolve conflict short of more war is Chamberlain.
Unlike Democrats, Republicans have found a way to play nicely with the ideologically aligned, regardless of the color of their skin. That, perhaps, is part of the problem.
For the past two years, John Hagee, the televangelist and head of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), has been laying out the lesson plan for Bush's speech in the Knesset this week.
Ann Coulter and Mike Huckabee have now both used rhetoric that was legal, but nonetheless toxic to healthy political debate.
Obama's opponents can't impugn his smarts or his ability to lead so they must -- must -- play to the basest card: race fear. It is all they have.
Will Americans never learn that who they think is a "nice guy" is no reason to elect a president? Apparently not.
The swing-vote evangelicals are three to five times as numerous as evangelicals who toe the Religious Right political line. Who says? The evangelicals themselves.
It's incomprehensible to think that the NRA leadership would abandon its principles to support someone who worked so hard against them. But, that's what is happening today in Louisville.
Cusack's new Film, War Inc., is a powerful, visionary response to the cheerleading culture of the corporate media and a pliant Hollywood afraid of its own shadow.
McCain's speech yesterday morning was pure, unadulterated fantasy. The political equivalent of the trippy tour the Beatles gave us in Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds -- only instead of rocking horse people eating marshmallow pies, we get "a functioning democracy" in Iraq.
If you want to resolve conflicts you have to talk... sometimes on the QT, sometimes through the media, sometimes face to face. But in the end you talk.
The Senate's vote reflects growing awareness -- in Congress and with average Americans -- of the perils of concentrated media ownership.
